Ep. 554 - Race Riots Cure Coronavirus
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Race riots have overtaken cities across the country, and scientists have yet to find a cure for coronavirus. What s the connection between race riots and the spread of the virus? And why are we so obsessed with social media these days?
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Race riots, looting, arson, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, absolute madness overtake cities from
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coast to coast this weekend, spreading misery and chaos in their wake. That's the downside.
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On the bright side, though, since no one cares about social distancing anymore, the unrest
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seems to have cured coronavirus. Then the mainstream media recast Black Lives Matter
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and Antifa anarchists as white supremacists, which put white liberals in a tough spot
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since they were all raising money to bail the alleged white supremacists out of jail.
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A whole lot to get to. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Gotta tell you, I thought the cure for coronavirus was going to be a little bit more medicinal.
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You know, look, I'm no expert scientist, but I thought maybe it would be hydroxychloroquine.
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That looked kind of promising. Then I thought maybe it could be that vaccine. You know,
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they were working on that vaccine for coronavirus in Oxford. But it turns out, actually, and the
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scientists are all bewildered by this, the cure for coronavirus is a bunch of race riots all around
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the country. That managed finally to stop it. Who could, you know, science is always changing,
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I guess. We will, we will get into how the narrative changed and actually the relationship between
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coronavirus and the race riots. I think maybe the jury is still out. The science is still out.
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Maybe the race riots did not cure coronavirus. But I think we can say with some certainty that
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the coronavirus lockdowns helped to cause the race riots. I think it's hard to say otherwise.
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What is causing this? The inciting incident was this death of George Floyd. George Floyd was the
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man in Minneapolis where the cop had the knee on his neck and it looked pretty clearly like police
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brutality. And then the guy died. And that was ostensibly what sparked this whole thing.
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But why this response? I mean, we'll get into the specifics of George Floyd's death in just a
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little bit. Why this response? It's not as though this is the first example of police brutality or
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apparent police brutality that's ever happened. It's not as though police brutality is the only crime
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that ever happens in the United States or even a particularly pervasive one. So why this response?
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I think it's because people are really, really on edge because they've been locked up for over
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two months and they've been thrown out of work and they don't have any money anymore. And they've
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been sitting on their couches doing nothing. 40 million people out of work, many of whom are young
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fighting age men who need to get their energy out. Just like little boys need to go run around
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outside and get their energy out. Young men need to go do things that are productive because idle
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hands are the devil's playground. And when you lock them up and take away their freedom and take
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away all their money for months at a time, bad things happen. Unintended consequences. Remember
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Andy Cuomo? If everything we do saves one life, it will have been worth it. Well, how many lives is it
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saving on the whole? What are the other effects of this? Right now, looks like race riots.
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What did we think would happen? What did we think would happen when we normalized wearing face masks
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all the time? Dressing up like banditos to go to restaurants, to walk into banks. You're going to
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now walk into a bank with a face mask. You think that's maybe not a great idea if you have civil
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unrest? Plus, that's the first level. The second level of this, all of us have been glued to our
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social media for the past two months. I don't know if you've spent a lot of time on Twitter. I sure
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have. When you're on social media, you're a little bit more rude to people than you are in
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real life. Okay? People talk to each other on social media in ways they would never do so in
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real life. It distances you. You don't look at the other person as another person. You look at them
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as some avatar. And basically, the way I would describe Twitter is just walking up to strangers,
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shaking them and calling them idiots, right? That's basically all that happens. That's another level
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of that. Plus, when you're spending all your time on social media, you're just waiting for the next
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dopamine rush. You're waiting for the next outrage to fill you with righteous indignation so that you
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can go out and burn it all down. That is the feeling of social media. And by the way, when we're all
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communicating with each other all of the time, it reminds me of a story from this old dusty book
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known as the Bible, which is the story of Babylon, Tower of Babel, which is that you, at the Tower of
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Babel, all the people start communicating with each other all of a sudden, and bad things happen.
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So many bad things happen that God decides to dispel all of them and confuse their tongues
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so that they can't speak with one another. Maybe we need another one of those again. Maybe when we're
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all talking, things don't go that well. Here is the changing narrative. First, the mainstream media
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tell us coronavirus super duper deadly. So deadly that if you walk outside your door, you are going
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to die. If you even consider protesting the government response to coronavirus, you are
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endangering people. Washington Post, a noose, an axe, and Trump-inspired insults. Anti-lockdown
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protesters ratchet up violent rhetoric. Oh gosh, these anti-lockdown protesters, they must have been
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committing violence. Well, no, I guess they weren't committing violence, but it was violent rhetoric
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at least. And that's a bad thing. That's so bad that you need to write a Washington Post article
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about it. Then from the nation, left-wing magazine, the press is amplifying a dangerous know-nothing
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ideology. The anti-lockdown protests aren't the first time the media has been swindled into
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cheerleading and extremist faux libertarianism. Swindled, darn it, I tell you. There's nothing
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righteous about going out there and protesting. This is a dangerous situation. And then from
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the peak, anti-lockdown protests ignore social responsibility for egotistical freedom.
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It is unacceptable to risk the health of others with poorly considered arguments against quarantine.
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Okay. You can't go out and protest because there's this deadly virus on, right? That's what they first
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told us. Until liberals started to protest and until leftists started to protest, then the protests
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were really, really good. So the next story we heard was that mass gatherings and protests are totally
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fine if they're in service of Black Lives Matter or if they're in service of Antifa or if they're in
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service of leftism generally. And even when they get violent, they're, they're not really violent.
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They're not riots. They're not looting. No, no, no. They're actually a merry caravan. That according
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to CNN. Not only protesters walking now, but they have several cars that have sort of joined the
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protest as well. And it's now just sort of a, a merry caravan. It is worth pointing out that it has
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been entirely peaceful, sometimes angry, but entirely peaceful. A few people doing some graffiti when,
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when others saw them doing the graffiti, they would shut them down, make them stop doing it.
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They're not saying that we are doing it peacefully. They better not f**k it up.
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So there was some of that, but for the most part, they have been very, very peaceful. Uh, they haven't, uh,
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they haven't been destroying anything. They, they, they like to take it out of the media
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as everybody does, but rather than, you know, yell at us and, and, and throw stuff at us,
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not in a, in a mean way. Uh, and we'll be fine.
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Yeah. They're very peaceful. They're, whoa. Uh, yeah, no, they're, they're, oh, yikes. Okay. Hold
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on. But they're super. Oh, look, occasionally they throw stuff at us, but if they peacefully throw
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it at us, it's definitely not violently throw on there screaming at us about all the violent
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things they want to do. Yeah. Okay. There's some of that, but I got mostly, believe me,
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don't listen to them. Don't listen to the rioters. Just listen to me, CNN. I am telling you that
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they're not violent. MSNBC got in on the action. This was probably the most ridiculous clip of the
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entire protest. Uh, there's an MSNBC guy in Minneapolis. The building behind him is burning
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to the ground. It is completely on fire. And the reporter says nothing to see here.
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I want to be clear in how I characterize this. This is a, mostly a protest. Uh, it is not, uh,
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it is not generally speaking unruly, but fires have been started. Okay. It's not generally speaking
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unruly. It's mostly, oh, that, oh, that's the building that's on fire. Yeah. Um, oh, it's a long
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story. We probably don't have time to get into it. Look, just take my word for it. It's a mostly
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peaceful protest. And yeah, I don't know something happened, but we'll, we'll get to that a little bit
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later. That was the second stage of the narrative. Third stage of the narrative. Finally, when they
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couldn't deny that it was violent anymore on account of, you know, all the fires and the looting,
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So the first part, coronavirus, super deadly. You got to stay inside. Mass gatherings are bad.
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Then the leftists mass gather. So it's mass gatherings are fine. Then they turn undeniably
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violent. So the mainstream media blame white supremacists. Even public officials are blaming
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white supremacists. Here's the public health supervisor, public health commissioner in
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Minnesota. As we've begun making arrests, we have begun analyzing the data of who we've arrested
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and begun actually doing what you would think is almost very similar to our COVID. It's contact
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tracing. Who are they associated with? What platforms are they advocating for? And we have seen
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things like white supremacist organizers who have posted things on platforms about coming to
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Minnesota. We are checking to see do the folks that we have, that we have made arrests on and
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that we have information. Are they connected to those platforms? The white supremacists, all four
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white supremacists in America must have descended on Minnesota and burned it down. This is the claim
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that the mainstream media started to parrot. Didn't make a whole lot of sense on account of most of
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the rioters and the looters were black. So unless they were extraordinarily confused
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clansmen, probably not white supremacists. Uh, that claim finally disappeared. There was one that,
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that replaced it. It, it, it was pretty obvious though, that when you saw all these videos,
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everybody's got a camera now, everybody is a journalist. So you, you could see the, the
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looting and the riots in real time. A lot of the looters did not seem particularly interested
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injustice for George Floyd either. So you could see people there robbing a Nike store. And there's
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this woman who's got a bunch of shoes in her hands who looks as happy as she could be. Christmas came
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early because she got these free shoes. Hey lady, why are you stealing all those shoes? I, something
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tells me justice for this man who was killed in Minnesota probably would not be very high up on
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her list. Now there were some white people there. They weren't white supremacists like the Minnesota
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public health commissioner says, but there were a lot of white people at these riots and, and protests.
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Uh, those, those white people that were associated with Antifa. So they weren't neo-Nazis. They weren't
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fascists. They were communists and anarchists and so-called anti-fascists. There were people who were
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being bussed in to cause a lot of mayhem and riots in these places. Uh, Fox 11 news caught one of them
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on camera in Santa Monica. Where did you come in from? Indiana. Indiana? Yeah. When did you get to Los
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Angeles, Southern California? Uh, today. And why did you come? Uh, I don't know. I don't know. Okay.
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Well, the unidentified man covering his face, we don't know if everything he's saying may be exact.
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I should clarify that actually was a black guy. I couldn't tell actually when I first saw the clip
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because everyone has face masks on, but I could just see it on his hand. There were other white people
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who also were part of Antifa who were bussed in. I actually, one of, there's a great clip. One of
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them, uh, was spray painting on a building. And, uh, uh, this was a clearly white person, even though
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there were a lot of masks on, you can see, cause they're spray painting and a group of black people
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come up and say, Hey, stop doing that. They're going to blame black people for that.
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Don't police people. Let me tell you this. This is not a black woman who's put in black lives matter.
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I just want you to know that when, right. But y'all, y'all doing that for us and we didn't ask
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you to do that. Listen, don't, don't, don't spray stuff on here when they're going to blame black
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people for this and black people didn't do it. Okay. So regardless, if you're talking about these
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moments of Antifa people, white Antifa activists who are committing acts in the name of black lives
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matter and the black people getting upset about that, or if you're talking about the mainstream
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media narrative, that this is white supremacists, either way created an awkward situation for white
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liberal celebrities who started to raise money online to bail out the rioters who got arrested
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because you can't have both at the same time, right? You can't, on the one hand, they're trying to say
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that these are good people. It's peaceful. They're, they're just standing up for justice. And that's
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why we've got to bail them out because they're the good black lives matter, peaceful activists.
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Give us your money to bail them out. Also, because obviously the thing is extremely violent.
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Also, it's white supremacists. If it's white supremacists, then that means Justin Timberlake
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is raising money to bail neo-Nazis out of jail. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense, does it?
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They're trying to have both sides and they cannot do it. The key to understanding this whole thing
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weekend. Not because of the riots, not because we planned anything. We just decided, hey, that'd be
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fun. Maybe we'll go down a little romantic trip. Then all the riots break out. The first thing to tip
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us off was we're walking around Laguna Beach, California, and we saw a protest for Black Lives
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Matter. All of the people, there were only about 10 or 12 people at this protest, all of them were
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white people with the Black Lives Matter signs. They were ostensibly standing in solidarity with
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the white Antifa people who were burning down black neighborhoods. And I guess there were also black
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rioters and looters and some peaceful protesters too, sure. But consider that all white group of
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people is standing up in the name of justice for Black people, standing in solidarity with the Antifa
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white people in justice for Black people to burn down black neighborhoods. That is peak ideology.
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That's what happens when the reality is so disconnected from the delusion.
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All about white liberals. All about their feeling of guilt. I have all these white liberal friends. I've lived
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in very liberal places in my life, so I've got many of this genre of friend. Their Instagram feeds these
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days, their Facebook feeds are insufferable because they're all posting about how racist they are. And my first
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reaction, when I saw these white liberals posting about how racist they are, I thought, damn, I've been
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friends with these people for years. I had no idea what monsters they were. I had no idea I was friends
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with all these racists. I thought they were just nice, normal people. But it turns out, according to
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their Instagram feeds right now, they're vicious, horrible racists. Why was I friends with those people
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in the first place? I don't know. This has become very fashionable for white liberals to perform
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their, their guilt and their grief and their remorse for the color of their own skin because
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about how guilty they are because really deep down beneath it all, they think of themselves as
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unwitting white supremacists. David Duke, without meaning to be so. Brooke Baldwin on CNN cried the same
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tears, performed the same racial grief. How would you, there are so many emotions as I'm sitting here
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listening to you. I'm, I'm having my own, I'm surprised at my own emotions on, on, on TV with
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you. But I've just, as a, as a white woman aware of my own privilege in this country, I am so angry
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and I can't even begin. Forgive me. No, it's, um, it's a human, it's a human emotion, Brooke.
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What did Brooke Baldwin do? Was Brooke Baldwin, was she like an instigator of Jim Crow? Was Brooke
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Baldwin there standing at the polling places saying you can't vote, but you can vote? Why,
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why, why are you so sorry? What did you do? I don't know. Maybe she did something.
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Is it, is it just that she feels grief because a guy died? Well, 55 people are killed in America
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every day. Why, why this one? Why, why focus on this one to the exclusion of all the others,
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all the other racial injustices or other forms of injustice? Because there obviously are many
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other forms of injustice. It is a, a, a highly politicized, highly agenda driven sort of
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performance. This whole thing started because of ideology. Begins with the sad incident involving
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George Floyd. That incident was used to push this lie that there's an epidemic of racist white cops
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slaughtering any black man who dares to exit his house nationwide. That's what LeBron James told us.
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Remember he said the minute black men leave their house, we are hunted down. Obviously not true. How
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do I know that? Cause LeBron James is LeBron James. I think he's doing just fine. So that lie was then
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used to justify looting and torching cities. And that lie was then used by white liberals to discourage
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putting down the race riots, which made the situations much, much worse, specifically in
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black communities. What's the end result? End result is that black lives matter. Rioters get to flex their
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muscles. Looters get free TV sets. Antifa thugs get bussed in from out of town to burn things.
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And good people themselves get burnt. Good people's communities themselves get burnt. In reality,
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in reality here, white liberals ideology is a far greater threat to black communities than the Ku Klux
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Klan. That's not my words. That's not what I'm saying. Those are the words of Van Jones, a left-wing
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black commentator who makes a very good point. And with whom I basically, basically, not totally,
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but basically agree on this matter. Here's Van Jones on CNN.
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It's not the racist white person who's in the Ku Klux Klan that we have to worry about. It's the
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white liberal Hillary Clinton supporter walking her dog in Central Park who would tell you right now,
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you know, people like that, oh, I don't see race. Race is no guilt to me. I see us all the same.
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I give to charities. But the minute she sees a black man who she does not respect or who she has a
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slight thought against, she weaponized race like she had been trained by the Aryan nation,
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a Klan's member could not have been better trained to pick up the police and pick up her phone and tell
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the police it's a black man, African-American man, come get him. So Van Jones is talking about that
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lady in Central Park. His read on it is a little more skewed because he's obviously he's not talking
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about the actions of the guy, you know, this like creepy guy who walked up to her and tried to lure her
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dog away and was filming her. And he's not talking about the sexual aspect of this whole thing. But
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I basically agree with this point because part of this woman's hysterical breakdown was she said,
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I'm going to call the cops and say an African-American man is attacking me. And you see this with a lot
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of white liberals is they, they talk a good game, but actually they have very condescending patronizing
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views about black people. They don't view black people as equal. That's why they allow black communities
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to burn as they think like, oh, well, obviously we never allow this to happen in our community. But if,
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if, if black people want to do it in their community, uh, that's fine. It's a different thing. We're obviously
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so, so different than they are. And the effect of this is, well, everyone gets to enjoy their ideology and
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their delusions and their fantasies. And some people get free TVs. Normal people, good, normal, rail,
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regular people in communities get destroyed. There was a woman who was interviewed in Minneapolis.
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Her community has just burned down and she was sobbing because now she had nowhere to turn.
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They went straight to office max, the dollar store at every store over here that I go to.
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I have nowhere to go now. I have no way to get there because the buses aren't running. These
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people did this for no reason. It's not going to bring George back here. George is in a better
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place than we are. Last night, I'm going to be honest. I wish I was where George was because
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this is ridiculous. These people are tearing up our livelihood. It's a terrible video to watch.
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Something tells me that woman's not on Twitter. Something tells me that woman isn't coordinating
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with the Black Lives Matter organization and then coordinating with the Antifa organization
00:24:01.440
and thinking about revolution and we're going to bring the guillotine and finally down with the
00:24:05.520
system man and we're going to bring marks in here and finally, no. Something tells me she's just
00:24:10.700
trying to live in her community and just have a life, you know, and kind of do the things that we all do
00:24:17.540
in life and these maniacs, these radical ideological villains have come in and burned down all the
00:24:26.240
places that she goes to and all the things that she cares about and she's the, and guess what? And
00:24:31.020
they're going to move on. They're going to go now. They're, they're moving city to city. They're moving
00:24:34.040
all around the country, but she doesn't get to move on. She's still in her community and nobody,
00:24:39.920
nobody is talking on her behalf. Nobody is standing up for her. Not Black Lives Matter,
00:24:46.520
not Antifa, not the white liberals. Nobody, nobody's doing that. Very sad. Meanwhile,
00:24:53.880
prominent left-wing communicators are encouraging the destruction. Chris Palmer, he's a former ESPN
00:25:01.500
reporter, NBA reporter. Chris Palmer, blue check mark on Twitter. He tweets out, there's an image
00:25:07.060
of low income housing burning to the, a low income building completely on fire. And he tweets out
00:25:14.680
the phrase, quote, burn that S-H-I-T down, burn it all down. So low income housing in downtown in the
00:25:24.440
city, burn it down. Yeah, that's right. Next tweet. Once the protesters started moving out of downtown,
00:25:32.860
started moving toward Beverly Hills, some of the nice areas in LA, all of a sudden it was a
00:25:38.880
different story. He says, I'm as down for the cause as anybody. Any of you clowns thinking you're
00:25:43.000
going to loot the Grove or Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills? It will not work out well for you. Trying
00:25:47.780
to loot Rodeo Drive is probably the worst idea in the history of bad ideas. I'm as angry as everyone
00:25:51.960
else, but keep that S-H-I-T in downtown LA. Don't bring it to my neighborhood, not my backyard.
00:25:58.600
Oh no, you keep that in your poor neighborhood, but in my rich neighborhood? No, no, no. I don't,
00:26:03.720
we don't want revolution there. Just in your bad place. He goes on, you bring that S-H-I-T to our
00:26:10.200
neighborhood and I'm going to have a real problem with it. There's a lot of people up here who care
00:26:13.500
and are angry. Attacking our neighborhood kills the movement and disgraces George Floyd. This
00:26:18.220
freaking jerk, he actually stands on the grave of this dead man in Minnesota to explain why people
00:26:26.840
should burn down the area where lots of low income, disproportionately black people live.
00:26:34.140
But not in his nice neighborhood where lots of rich people and mostly like Persian people and
00:26:39.240
white people live. Don't do that. No, that would disgrace the memory of George Floyd, but go burn
00:26:44.080
down downtown LA. George would love that. Oh, he'd be thrilled. What's the political outcome here?
00:26:50.140
We'll get to that in one second. Is this going to help Trump? Is it going to hurt Trump?
00:26:52.620
What should we do about all of this? How do we keep our cool? We'll get to that in one second.
00:26:57.840
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What's the political outcome here? Is this going to help Trump or is this going to hurt Trump?
00:28:35.380
There was a hysterical white liberal lady in Santa Monica who was screaming at the looters
00:28:40.900
running into the store stealing stuff. She said, stop looting. Stop stealing stuff. It's going to
00:28:45.640
get Trump reelected. This is going to get Trump reelected. Please stop. Think first. Do not get
00:28:52.480
Trump reelected for your behavior. Please. Santa Monica. Please. We don't want Trump reelected.
00:29:01.780
Please don't do that. You're only going to want him back. Please, please stop reelecting Donald Trump.
00:29:09.400
You know, there's a lot of wisdom to what this woman is saying. When there's civil unrest,
00:29:14.380
people prefer to go for the law and order candidates. This happened in 68 with Richard
00:29:19.340
Nixon and then Nixon obviously got reelected. So this might help Trump. Trump ran in 2016 as the
00:29:25.900
law and order, tough on crime kind of candidate and Republicans tend to occupy that space.
00:29:31.620
Trouble is though, Trump has weakened his law and order cred because one of his big legislative
00:29:36.820
initiatives that he pushed is the so-called First Step Act, which we can debate the merit of the First
00:29:42.820
Step Act all day. But the effect of it is to let criminals out of prisons. And I don't think that
00:29:47.860
when people look around at these riots going on and burning buildings and people dying around the
00:29:52.260
country, I don't think their first thought is, yeah, we don't have, we have too many people in
00:29:56.660
prison. Yeah, we got, our prisons are too full. No, I think their thought is we don't have enough
00:30:01.480
people in prison. We need to put these people in prison. So that's going to hurt him a little bit.
00:30:05.580
Also, President Trump hasn't yet addressed the nation on this. And a lot of people are calling for it.
00:30:09.580
A lot of conservatives are calling for it. I'm not saying this hurts Trump. I don't know that
00:30:13.560
it will because you've got the Biden campaign engaging in totally unforced errors. There's
00:30:17.320
a headline from Reuters that came out that the Biden campaign staff donated to a group that is
00:30:24.620
posting bail for rioters in Minneapolis. So the Biden campaign is actually springing these thugs from
00:30:31.440
the clink. If you've got a choice between Biden and Trump, in that case, you're going to pick Trump.
00:30:35.680
And also when there's civil unrest, when people actually, it seems like we're not just on the
00:30:39.620
verge of violence, but there's violence going on around the country. You don't want the doddering
00:30:44.100
senile person who doesn't remember his own name. Regardless of your ideology or your philosophical
00:30:48.940
views, probably you're going to want the guy who's a little more virile. Trump needs to show that he's
00:30:54.400
still virile. Secret Service reportedly evacuated him to a White House bunker last night that's used
00:31:00.020
during terrorist attacks because there were that many mobs and rioters coming up against the White
00:31:04.860
House. They lit the St. James Church, the most famous church in Washington, D.C. They lit it on
00:31:10.420
fire. Luckily, they seem to have put it out. How are we going to deal with this? How's Trump going
00:31:16.180
to deal with this? Reportedly, again, take it with a grain of salt because it's from the mainstream
00:31:20.300
media, but reportedly some of Trump's advisors are urging caution. Play it really safe. Don't come out
00:31:28.160
against the rioters. Hold listening sessions. Listening sessions. Rioters throwing Molotov cocktails,
00:31:36.880
looting stores around the country, destroying businesses, destroying lives, destroying cities,
00:31:41.880
burning down buildings, burning down police buildings. Have listening sessions. Probably not a
00:31:48.520
great idea. If any advisors are proposing listening sessions, probably Trump should get some new
00:31:53.640
advisors. Those advisors are not paying attention to what's going on. Those kinds of proposals actually
00:32:00.240
remind me of one of the viral videos that went around from the weekend. And this was of a guy in one
00:32:05.900
of the cities that's burning down. I don't even remember which one. And the guy is trying to light a
00:32:09.700
building on fire. But fortunately, this rioter is so incompetent that he actually catches himself on fire
00:32:26.660
You hate to see it, don't you? You hate to see it when a rioter is trying to burn down a city, but then
00:32:41.500
his hair is too big. So he accidentally catches his hair on fire and tumbles down the stairs and
00:32:46.500
rolls to try to put it off. You hate to see it. I mean it. I mean it. You hate to see it.
00:32:51.660
That video reminds me of this Trump, alleged Trump policy of holding listening sessions
00:32:59.900
that you're going to, while the country is being destroyed, you're going to create an unforced error.
00:33:07.580
You're going to set yourself on fire. No good will come from listening sessions with rioters.
00:33:13.460
None. Not one little bit. You will only harm yourself. You will only increase, accelerate
00:33:20.000
the rate at which your political power is burning to the ground. Got to take a different course.
00:33:27.020
Huntington Beach, California showed the way. Huntington Beach, California, one of the few
00:33:31.560
conservative towns here in SoCal. It's down in Orange County, the promised land.
00:33:38.160
These Antifa wackos decided to show up to Huntington Beach. All right. They've been burning and some
00:33:43.840
Black Lives Matter people and some rioters and some rioters. They've been showing up all over the
00:33:49.140
place, right? So they show up to Huntington Beach. Huntington Beach just says no. So you see people,
00:33:55.120
they got Trump flags. They've got all different kinds of hats, men and women. The rioters show up there
00:34:02.260
and the normal pro-Trump people chase them out of town. You can actually see the video later. They
00:34:10.840
are all leaving Huntington Beach because these guys are saying, no, I don't think we're going to have
00:34:14.980
any listening sessions here while you burn down our city. I'm pretty sure we're going to make you all
00:34:20.040
skedaddle. Smart stuff. And some women were hurt in the, among the pro-Trump Huntington Beach crowd.
00:34:27.340
I mean, this was, it did get violent. These rioters are violent, vicious, terrible people,
00:34:31.680
but ultimately they got chased out of town when people stood up to them instead of coddling them,
00:34:37.120
holding listening sessions. Huntington Beach is not going to be bullied into letting their city
00:34:42.900
burn in the name of, in the name of racism or anti-racism or fascism or anti-fascism or this-ism
00:34:49.120
or that-ism. Ain't going to happen. They're going to run them out of town. We should take notes because
00:34:52.920
riots create inevitably bad outcomes. There was another video going around last night of downtown
00:34:58.840
somewhere. Again, I don't know. It's happening in so many different cities. Couldn't even tell you
00:35:02.800
which downtown it was in. I think it might've been Los Angeles, but I'm not sure. There's a car
00:35:08.680
is driving and a mob of violent rioters surrounds the car and they start attacking the car and opening
00:35:15.400
the door. We've seen the videos all around the country, right? The minute these rioters get you
00:35:19.720
out of your car, you're done. You're not getting back up. You're not walking away. Forget about even
00:35:24.820
defending your property. At that point, it becomes a question of defending your life. Or imagine if you
00:35:29.000
have your wife in your car or your kids in your car. So these guys surround the guy in the car.
00:35:33.240
Well, guess what he's going to do? He's going to put his foot on the accelerator.
00:35:38.680
Oh my God. Oh my God. Very sad stuff. If you surround a man in his vehicle, expect to get
00:35:58.720
smushed. That is a law of nature. I'm not saying it's good or bad. I'm saying it's inevitable.
00:36:05.660
If, if I am in my car and you surround me and you're threatening me with violence and you're
00:36:13.640
trying to get me out of my car, there's only one thing I can do. And that is to put my foot
00:36:18.680
on the accelerator and get the hell out of Dodge. Okay. That's just a bad outcome. Nobody wants that.
00:36:27.400
Nobody wants to have to put his foot on the accelerator. Nobody wants to be dragged out of
00:36:31.000
his car. That is an inevitably bad outcome caused by tolerating these riots.
00:36:38.800
A, a good policy here, which we're not seeing pushed by mostly liberal democratic mayors and
00:36:44.920
mostly liberal democratic governors, maybe exclusively liberal democratic politicians.
00:36:49.300
And all the way up until the federal level. And finally at the federal level, Trump is saying,
00:36:52.720
we got to send in the national guard, which eventually they've done in a lot of these places.
00:36:56.720
But that's what happens here. When you tolerate this kind of stuff, you think you're doing it in
00:37:01.240
the name of compassion. There's nothing compassionate about putting that in the,
00:37:04.160
putting people in this situation where inevitably people are going to get hurt.
00:37:08.160
Race is lying as a, as a major issue in all of this. Right. And I think people,
00:37:14.700
they don't know why racism is bad. I actually think we don't, you know, you always hear the left
00:37:20.660
talking about, we need a national conversation about race. Then we never have a national conversation
00:37:24.520
about race because the left never wants to have any conversation. They never want to have any
00:37:27.120
listening sessions. They just want to scream and yell and riot. Racism is bad. The reason it is bad
00:37:33.380
is that it is an offense against human dignity. Man is made in the image of God, right? Man descends
00:37:41.460
from a common ancestor, Adam. That regardless of your views of the Bible or the Genesis account or any
00:37:47.760
of that, that is why racism is bad. That is the only reason that anybody has ever thought that racism is
00:37:53.600
bad is because we are made in the image of God. So there is a brotherhood of man and we all descend
00:38:00.320
from a common ancestor, Adam. So there's human solidarity. Racism itself takes different forms. On the
00:38:07.900
left, racism takes the form of believing that white people are bad. That's what you're seeing on your
00:38:12.500
Instagram feeds right now. Or for the white liberals, it's the belief that what they actually think is that
00:38:17.380
white people are superior, but it's wrong that they're superior. And so they feel a lot of guilt and,
00:38:22.000
but they still feel superior. So they're still going to exercise that in various ways. But that's
00:38:26.340
kind of left-wing racism. On the right, when racism manifests, it's usually a reactionary kind of
00:38:31.540
racism. You see it in the recesses of the internet. It focuses on IQ. It talks a lot about IQ or it
00:38:37.240
talks a lot of, actually, it usually takes the form of anti-Semitism and these theories about the Jews
00:38:41.760
controlling every single thing in the world and everything is the Jews' fault. Those are two ways
00:38:46.960
racism manifests. The left thinks that the cure for racism is a different kind of racism. So the cure
00:38:53.280
for thinking that whites are superior to blacks is thinking that blacks are better in some way than
00:38:59.560
whites and we need to give a lot of privileges to blacks and, and not to whites and not, not have
00:39:04.460
racial equality, just kind of flip the racism. The right believes that the cure for racism is a
00:39:09.700
denial of racial consciousness. So you see this all the time among conservatives. They say, you know,
00:39:14.180
I don't, I don't see race. And very often it's true. They don't see race. They don't think about
00:39:18.020
race that much. I promise you. They do. I, the left doesn't believe this when we conservatives say
00:39:23.200
this. We don't think about race that much. We don't care. It is not on the top list of priorities,
00:39:28.400
but it is the case that leftists think about race a lot. Most other racial groups have a fairly high
00:39:37.120
and developed degree of racial consciousness. That is an undeniable fact. Now, both of those cures,
00:39:44.980
the left's cure and the right's cure, both of them are wrong. The denial of the problem obviously
00:39:50.000
doesn't solve anything. So what is the answer? The cure for racism is necessarily religious.
00:39:57.980
The only non-racist civilization in history is the West. The only civilization that has done anything
00:40:04.280
to cure the problem of racism is the West. Okay. Why did the West do that? Because of Christianity.
00:40:14.640
Because the thing that shaped the West, the thing that has defined the West is Christianity. And in
00:40:21.160
Christianity, in Christ, as the scriptures tell us, there is neither Jew nor Greek, nor bond nor free,
00:40:28.140
but all are one in Christ Jesus. These racial divisions go away in the mystical body of Christ.
00:40:35.620
That is the theological basis of anti-racism and the image of God and our common ancestor.
00:40:42.040
That manifests in the culture. So even in our civilization now, which has in many ways discarded
00:40:46.920
the religion that created it, we still have the kind of lingering effects, the lingering
00:40:52.660
attitudes that were created by that religious answer. People have been asking me, they've been
00:40:58.740
writing in on Twitter, on an email and other places. They've said, how do you stay calm during
00:41:05.280
what is now apparently a national insurrection? How do you stay calm? There are two answers.
00:41:10.560
The one is religious. The other is historical. Obviously the religious answer is, my savior lives,
00:41:15.680
you know, come on, you can, you know, this, this flesh isn't going to last forever. This matter isn't,
00:41:21.100
isn't the whole world. We should protect people's property. We should protect our civilization and
00:41:25.220
our cities, but you know, this ain't it. This isn't the whole world. And so in the grand scheme
00:41:31.240
of things, the, the footlocker that just got robbed is, is not, you know, the be all and end
00:41:36.420
all. It's very sad for the business owner. It's wrong, but you know, it's not, not the end of the
00:41:40.400
world. Also, if you have this religious point of view, you realize the imagination of man's heart is
00:41:45.600
evil from the beginning. We're in a fallen world. There is original sin. We're not going to get
00:41:49.440
utopia on earth. America, wonderful country as it is, is not this utopia. It's not going to be
00:41:55.860
perfect. There's always going to be injustice. So that's the way of the world. That's the religious
00:41:59.900
answer. The other one is historical. Lots of bad things happen in history. I mean, if you look back
00:42:08.000
at not just the recent past, but the longer past, the way longer past, go back actually to the
00:42:16.760
historical accounts in the Bible. Things go real bad, real fast. There are lots of atrocities.
00:42:22.700
There's lots of precedent. You know, a lot of people are comparing this race riot to the 1992
00:42:28.180
riots. And there are some analogs and some not analogs. Meaning in, in 1992, these race riots began
00:42:37.180
because Rodney King was beaten by the police. And then the police officers who were involved were
00:42:42.080
acquitted of the crime. And because they were acquitted, people view this as an injustice and
00:42:47.220
there were race riots. There is some analogy here, except where is the injustice currently being
00:42:54.840
committed? A guy was killed, very likely through police brutality. Then the cop involved was fired
00:43:02.140
and then he was charged with murder. What, what next? What else, what else could be done?
00:43:10.100
There's nothing else to be, the guy's being charged with murder. There's no, it's not like he was
00:43:13.860
acquitted, right? And he gets to walk scot-free. There's nothing else to be done. So there's no
00:43:18.240
resolution to this. There's no, there's no answer. It's just this venting of frustration that I think
00:43:24.860
comes from, from ignorance and isolation and, uh, uh, a loss of, of what the, the civilization is built
00:43:33.660
on. That happens in history. Nations rise, nations peak, nations fall. Civilizations rise, they peak,
00:43:40.220
they fall. Lots of, uh, bad things, lots of suffering. The world continues to spin. The world
00:43:48.500
goes on. There will be, you know, if you have a progressive vision of the world, then things have
00:43:52.720
to keep getting better and better and better and better. And everything in the past was bad and
00:43:55.620
everything in the future is getting better and better. And the reason why progressives and
00:43:58.900
liberals are so disillusioned is because that doesn't actually happen. The way things, the way
00:44:03.640
things really happen is some bad things happen, then maybe some good things happen, but then some
00:44:09.460
more bad things happen. And now we're in the midst of one of these bad things happening. And guess what?
00:44:13.920
Some good things will happen again. That's the good news. And the bad news is some bad things will
00:44:18.400
happen after that. That's the way of the world. It's not particularly ideological. It's
00:44:22.720
much more practical. It's much more realistic. But I think all of the madness that we're looking
00:44:27.200
at right now has been caused by ideological delusions. And the only way we're going to get
00:44:32.540
back to any sense of normalcy is by dispelling those illusions and accepting occasionally a bitter
00:44:40.180
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